Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, PC was an English writer and politician.
He served as a Whig MP from 1831 to 1841 and a Conservative MP from 1851 to 1866. He was Secretary of State for the Colonies from June 1858 to June 1859, choosing Richard Clement Moody as founder of British Columbia.
He declined the Crown of Greece in 1862 after King Otto abdicated. He was created Baron Lytton of Knebworth in 1866.
Bulwer-Lytton's works were popular and paid him well. He coined the phrases the great unwashed, pursuit of the almighty dollar, the pen is mightier than the sword, and dweller on the threshold.
Then came a sharp fall in his reputation, so that he is little read today. The sardonic 1982 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest claimed to seek the opening sentence of the worst of all possible novels. Bulwer was born on 25 May 1803 to General William Earle Bulwer of Heydon Hall and Wood Dalling, Norfolk and Elizabeth Barbara Lytton, daughter of Richard Warburton Lytton of Knebworth House, Hertfordshire. He had two older brothers, William Earle Lytton Bulwer and Henry, later Lord Dalling and Bulwer. When Edward was four, his father died and his mother moved to London. He was a delicate, neurotic child and discontented at a number of boarding schools. However, he was precocious and a Mr Wallington, who tutored him at Ealing, encouraged him to publish, at the age of 1
He served as a Whig MP from 1831 to 1841 and a Conservative MP from 1851 to 1866. He was Secretary of State for the Colonies from June 1858 to June 1859, choosing Richard Clement Moody as founder of British Columbia.
He declined the Crown of Greece in 1862 after King Otto abdicated. He was created Baron Lytton of Knebworth in 1866.
Bulwer-Lytton's works were popular and paid him well. He coined the phrases the great unwashed, pursuit of the almighty dollar, the pen is mightier than the sword, and dweller on the threshold.
Then came a sharp fall in his reputation, so that he is little read today. The sardonic 1982 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest claimed to seek the opening sentence of the worst of all possible novels. Bulwer was born on 25 May 1803 to General William Earle Bulwer of Heydon Hall and Wood Dalling, Norfolk and Elizabeth Barbara Lytton, daughter of Richard Warburton Lytton of Knebworth House, Hertfordshire. He had two older brothers, William Earle Lytton Bulwer and Henry, later Lord Dalling and Bulwer. When Edward was four, his father died and his mother moved to London. He was a delicate, neurotic child and discontented at a number of boarding schools. However, he was precocious and a Mr Wallington, who tutored him at Ealing, encouraged him to publish, at the age of 1
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